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Those four words would turn small-time criminal Charles Brown into a legendary fan favorite.

Created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, Kite Man was originally a one-off supervillain,

Like most villains of that era, Kite Man just kind of showed up one day to take on the Caped

Armed with his arsenal of kite-themed weapons, he did just that!

Now, I'd love to tell you that, like the Joker, this unlikely one-off criminal turned

into an iconic supervillain after his first defeat at the hands of Batman, but that's

I mean, look at this guy, he's no clown prince of crime, he's Charlie Brown, kite

There's really not much to him, he's one of many “joke villains” that Batman's

rogues gallery has accrued over the years: Calendar Man, Condiment King, Kite Man.

No, he's not playing Kite Man in any adaptation of the character or anything.

This is Tom King, current writer of Batman and one of my personal favorite humans.

Remember that phrase from earlier, “Kite Man!

King actually coined that with his reintroduction of the character in 2016's Batman #6.

This is where Brown started to pick up some more traction, it's at the very least the

See, after Kite Man's first appearance, he faded into obscurity, eventually dying

With only a handful of comics featuring the villain, it was a strange experience to see

him grace the pages of a modern comic and fit right in.

He felt like he had been around Gotham forever, even though this was the first time he had

It's not unlike Snyder's introduction of the Court of Owls back during the New 52

In the issue, he's seen robbing a house, only to be intercepted by Gotham Girl and

After this he does show up a few more times, but is treated as the punching bag, D-Tier

Not much was made of Kite Man, he clearly kept showing up and getting panel-time because

Tom King thought he was funny — an easy way to inject some levity into an otherwise

But, that's not the whole story, King had bigger plans for our Kite King, starting with

a story arc called The War of Jokes and Riddles.

CHARLIE, JR. Daddy, can I tell you something?

CHARLIE, JR. Mommy was talking on the phone, I don't know to who.

CHARLIE, JR. She said it before too, she says it lots.

KITE MAN Your mother didn't mean that like it sounded.

CHARLIE, JR. It sounded like you're a joke.

KITE MAN I mean, she didn't — I mean, maybe…

I try a lot of things, and I'm not always good at them.

The thing is, you gotta laugh too, it's the only way.

And if you're laughing with them, then at least you're laughing.

Being a flashback story, The War of Jokes and Riddles takes place before Charles Brown

In fact, this is where we see his origin.

Two interlude comics during this story, titled The Ballad of Kite Man, reveal a lot about

For one, he was the father in a dysfunctional family — a petty criminal who occasionally

helped out the Joker and other villains, sure, but he loved his son above anything else.

“Hell yeah,” Charlie, Jr. would say as the father and son flew kites together.

This was, of course, interrupted when Joker and Riddler struck up a civil war among the

Brown was caught in the middle, being used as a pawn to pass information between Batman

Riddler was fed up with this and, as a power play, tragically killed Brown's son.

This sent him into a fury, creating the Kite Man costume and identity so he could join

As ambitious and ridiculous of a plan that this was for a dude with a kite strapped to

his back, Kite Man actually did have an essential role to play in Batman's takedown of the

He basically engineered a way to get Batman's team of supervillains up to the Joker's

lair to allow the final showdown to take place.

The plan involved a lot of kites, because of course, which allowed the team to fly up

to the 73rd floor of a Gotham skyscraper, where Joker was hiding.

One huge battle ensues, and the story arc comes to a close.

It's hard for me to describe how much character development King gave Kite Man in these few

issues, so just go read them yourself, you won't be disappointed.

The point here is that King was able to turn this one-off joke of a character into a deep,

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